In the last years power computing and communication technologies have improved greatly, while at the same time immersive and wearable user interfaces became available at a consumer level. The widespread of these technologies fostered research in the field of telexistence and robot avatars, making it mature enough to be deployed out of the lab. There is a general consensus that enabling the remotization of physical activities would have a large impact on both safety and effciency of industrial processes. In this paper we report our work towards the development of robot avatars for industrial applications and the preliminary results of their deployment in real use cases.